Letters from the American Desert: Signposts of a Journey, A Vision. Frederick Glaysher.
ISBN: 9780967042114. 0967042119. Hardcover. Preface. Earthrise Press, 2008. 172 pages. $19.99.

Frederick Glaysher invokes a global vision beyond the prevailing conceptions entrenched in postmodernism and postmodernity.

In Letters from the American Desert, Glaysher reflects on the cultural, political, and religious history of Western and non-Western
civilizations, pondering the dilemmas of postmodernity, in a compelling struggle for spiritual knowledge and truth. Fully cognizant
of the relativism and nihilism of modern life, Glaysher finds a deeper meaning and purpose for the individual and the world
community in the writings and global vision of Baha'u'llah, as expressed in the Reform Bahai Faith. Confronting the antinomies of
the soul, grounded in the dialectic, Glaysher charts a path beyond the postmodern desert.

Alluding to Martin Luther and W. B. Yeats at All Souls Chapel, Glaysher calls Reform Bahais and others to embrace the universal,
moderate form of the Bahai Teachings as interpreted by Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'u'llah's son, who had spoken throughout the West in Europe,
England, and the United States from 1911 to 1913. Abdu'l-Baha's message of the oneness of God, all religions, and humankind holds
out a new hope and vision for a world in spiritual and global crisis. Far from a theocracy, the Reform Bahai Faith envisions a
modest separation of church and state as the will of God, in harmony and balance with universal peace, in a global age of pluralism.

In addition to the letters written to Mrs. Elinor Gaines, an older Bahai from Glaysher's hometown of Rochester, Michigan, during the
late 1980s to mid '90s, reflecting on literary and cultural matters, as well as Bahai, the book includes the 95 Theses, On Bahai
Liberty,
the Reform Bahai Articles, Abdu'l-Baha's Covenant, and book reviews of Juan Cole, William Garlington, and Sen McGlinn, along
with other writings relevant to the Reform Bahai Faith.

Available throughout much of the world on most of the same websites as The Universal Principles of the Reform Bahai Faith.

January 7, 2008 - Letter to Judge Amy J. St. Eve

Reform Bahai Faith
www.reformbahai.org
reformbahai@comcast.net

January 7, 2008

Re: Civil Action No. 64 C 1878

The Honorable Amy J. St. Eve
United States District Court
Northern District of Illinois
Courtroom 1241, Chambers 1260
Everett McKinley Dirksen Federal Building
219 South Dearborn Street
Chicago, Illinois 60604

Dear Judge St. Eve:

Abdu'l-Baha's Covenant

"After Abdul-Baha--whenever the Universal House of Justice is organized
it will ward off differences."
www.reformbahai.org/Covenant.htm

In 1922 this Address Upon the Covenant, delivered by Abdu'l-Baha on June 19, 1912, was suppressed from appearing in The Promulgation
of Universal Peace, though it was "approved" and published in this pamphlet...

Reform Bahai Articles

"To be a Bahai simply means to love all the world; to love
humanity and try to serve it; to work for universal peace and
universal brotherhood." - Abdu'l-Baha

For over three years now since 2004, the Reform Bahai Faith has
once again existed, born anew from tyranny and oppression, from
essentially the same spiritual upheavals as that of Ruth White,
Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, Julie Chanler, and the thousands of Bahais
who left in protest under the imposition of an oppressive organization
based on the fraudulent will and testament of Abdu'l-Baha throughout
the 1920s, '30s, and '40s. God has, throughout the decades, preserved
the historical record of events for perceptive minds and souls.

Despite all fanatical, fundamentalist attempts to suppress all memory
of Abdul-Baha's vision and interpretation of Baha'u'llah's Faith, to root
it out, to coerce and slander, malign and expell, shun and besmirch the
testimony of the Writings and the early believers, the Bahai Movement
has continued to endure, quietly persist, giving testimony to the vision
of God's oneness, the oneness of humanity and religion, and the human
potential for peace and brotherly love.

On Bahai Liberty

The Prisoner of Akka, Baha'u'llah, lived much of His life deprived of
liberty, harassed and suppressed by the tyranny of one despot or another,
yet He envisions a world of global freedom and universal...

95 Theses of the Reform Bahai Faith

Please feel free to share and distribute, in any manner, preferably in full,
these 95 Theses.

To His Great Ends, the Reform Bahai Faith invites all souls to a Convocation
of celebration, brotherhood, and Reform, during Ridvan, 2006.

The Reform Bahai Faith, calling to mind the sufferings and imprisonment of
the Bab, Baha'u'llah, and Abdu'l-Baha, under the brutal oppression of
tyrannical regimes, bent upon silencing and destroying their testimony of
God's New Day, resolves

1. To witness the truth of the deviation of the organized, incorporated
Baha'i Faith from the Path, and its imposition of manifest corruptions and
innovations, over many lamentable decades, that have wrought ever-increasing
alienation, fear, censorship, coercion, misrepresentation, distortion, and
damage, all the stratagems of despots and dictators, political and
religious, upon individual Bahais, their families, and the community of
believers.

2. To seek afresh His Will, as at the dawn of a New Day, whereby the
earth is born anew and man stands transparent before God's manifestation of
His Will.